Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit challenging the state Supreme Court's recent ruling deeming absentee voter drop boxes illegal.
Election officials count absentee ballots in the Town of Beloit fire station on Nov. 3, 2020, near Beloit, Wis. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit challenging the state Supreme Court's recent ruling that deemedThe lawsuit underscores broader concerns by voters with disabilities who fear increased hurdles to voting in light ofAt issue in Wisconsin is the state Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling this month that held voters will be required to mail or return completed absentee ballots in person to designated officials.
Wisconsin voters will also only be allowed to return absentee ballots in drop boxes in elected officials' offices, the court said. The lawsuit filed last week asks the federal court to allow disabled voters to give their ballots to others to return for them, saying that the ruling violates the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act,The plaintiffs argue that many people with disabilities simply cannot vote if they can't receive help from somebody to mail or deliver their ballots, the"Plaintiffs are faced with an impossible, and unlawful, choice: abstain...
"To reduce the amount of time of early voting, to reduce ballot drop boxes, all of that is going to specifically impact disabled people."
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